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THE PASTEUR TREATMENT. -- Before M. Pasteur's treatment was applied, the mortality among people bitten in the face by rabid animals amounted to 80 per cent. I find that in the years extending from 1885 to 1889, 593 persons bitten in the face were inoculated at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. The total mortality is 2.23 per cent.

June 19, 1892

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